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The senate is still on break. Libby casey joins us now from capitol hill with more. Good afternoon, liby 2347 thats right, congress has a lot on its plate including the farm bill. If they dont get a farm bill passed it could cause a for the Food Stamp Program and it could cause a problem for milk. The Defense Authorization act has to get passed, and Unemployment Benefits. Long term Unemployment Benefits expired and they need to be renewed. President obama weighed in on that one. By the way, chri...

Our systems were not designed to not pay our bills. The legal issues are many. I do not know how you could make the legal issues are many. I do not know how you could make the decisions and i do not think the legal authorities are clear at all and i do not think the administrative process would permit the system to work. We write roughly 80 million checks per month. The systems are automated tube a because for 224 years, the policy of congress and every president is we pay our bills. You cannot ...

Aids is going to lose. Aids is going to lose. Reporter a woman riding her bike along this street in berkeley is shot to death overnight. Well tell you what Berkeley Police are doing this morning to try to track down her killer. Four people are wounded in latenight gunfire near oaklands lake merritt. We have new information on the condition of the victim. Its another stormy morning commute in the bay area. Heavy traffic in richmond and berkeley. What you need to know before you hit the highway. R...

Enhance the efforts to do away with such weapons. So now an organization just starting its most crucial work has been recognized with a major prize. The opcw will inevitably be judged on its work in syria. Some may ask the notice Belle Committee acted too soon. Now to chew over some of the issues brought up by this award of the notice belle peace prize, im joined by professor paul, a former director of arms control at british manipulate industry of defense, and also by bruce kent, one of britain...

I first question is i have is for mr. Goldstein. Talked to this to some extent. I will come back and revisit it very briefly. In the past decade or so, you have overseen 12 independent reports of federal Facility Security. You have looked at the armed guard programs, you have collaborated with state and local Law Enforcement and the Human Capital planning. Gao has also conducted what we call them covert testing. You talked about some of that that is going on of federal facilities. In other words...

This tragedy came to pass but hopefully the Lessons Learned from it will provide a foundation for presenting preventing future tragedies like this one. Lets take just a moment to recap our aaron alexis copy access to the navy are then allowed to successfully enter the facility that fateful morning. In 2007, aaron alexis joined the u. S. Navy, as with other servicemembers he a background check was performed and he was granted a low level security clearance. After a discharge from the navy in 2011...

Soldiers during the West Gate Mall siege which shows upscale looting and uganda where a mysterious brain disease is affecting thousands of children. Hello, we begin with a developing story out of france where a diplomatic roe is brewing with the United States. The u. S. National Security Agency is accused of spying on millions of french citizens. And foreign minister called the nsa spy program unacceptable and the newspaper says the u. S. Swept up 17 million phone records and text mess j as in a...

Obesity is a problem in the developing world. The United Nations say rebels in south sudan are marching on the capitol and as cease fire talks get underway in neighboring ethiopia and the u. S. Embassy is evacuating all nonessential staff from the city and lets get straight over and talk about this in the capitol duba and mohamed what is the latest there, how far away are the rebel soldiers . Well, according to officials of the United Nations, rebels are 150 kilometers away at a town called mcwh...

We are bringing in the Live Feedback throughout the show. This is called one of the most humanitarian crisis on the glob and it is amazing that something that profound can still kind of drop off the radar. We often read and see the headlines, open space, and i looked to the right and see the tents and what is that, this is thousands of refugees coming into the country and it is sobbering to put faces on that. The community cares, we should care as americans because thousands including children a...

Humanitarian crisises in the world. It is amazing that something that profound can still drop off everyones radar. We often read the headlines. Last year was in turkey. I see a bunch of tents, and i asked the driver and said what is that . And he said we just set it up for the thousands of syrian refugees. And people care, carol tweeted in. Well, its hard too. When you ask people if they care, of course they care. But then its translating that into what do i as an individual do tonight. Yeah, we...